Ex: Throughout the years, young, innocent boys who started their gaming careers on the Atari and NES, grew into old, perverted gamers of the next generation. As we gamers continue to age, our interactive material moves right along with us, and that also means that as women begin to appeal to us, we begin making games that reflect our "perfect woman." These women all tend to have one thing in common: enormous breasts.
"Now, the thing I haven’t mentioned in all of this is that, yes, these grisly death scenes are especially weird because Lara Croft is a woman.
She’s every bit as powerful, resourceful and agile as her male counterparts, but where Nathan Drake and Master Chief and Agent 47 and Solid Snake and Kratos and Link and Gordon Freeman simply get knocked off, Lara Croft needs to be beaten up, bloodied, impaled and garroted for all to see.
And when these animations are made by a majority-male development crew, for a majority-male audience, under the shadow of all sorts of nasty tropes that see women suffer on screen, it’s understandable why so many people feel uneasy about these scenes." Polygon says.
It's not because it is a she, Tomb Raider has always had special death animations, and it's a lot like Death Space, which mind you Isaac had FAR more gruesome fates them Lara. It's a design on the game to show the result of your failing. If anything it's equal opportunity, she is treated no different then most male characters, it's just most devs don't do custom death scenes.
Death animations will never be outdated. It’s far better than seeing a character do the same thing every time it’s game over no matter the situation
It goes to show how creative the devs can get to show the player’s failure
We're living in parody. Its like we all died and went to spaceballs's unfunny prequel.
How does a death animation, have anything to do with Lara Croft's gender...? Oh wait, it doesn't. Stop making something out of nothing. Please tell me these Polygon "Jounalists" don't actually get paid to write this garbage...
Polygon with another article that helps further cement modern gaming journalism as a joke. How is having a variety of death animations for a character dated? Also, why is Lara’s gender suddenly an issue, male characters have brutal death animations also, just look at Doom (2016),the Gears of War series, God of War...
The Tomb Raider series is one of the most well known in gaming. Host to exceptional highs and depressing lows, it has seen its titular protagonist take on all manner of ancient traps and untold evils to learn the truths of the world, and amass additions to her fortunes along with it. With well over a dozen entries though, some have obviously been better than others, and today we've got every game ranked.
17. Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness
16. Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation
15. Tomb Raider: The Prophecy
14. Tomb Raider: Chronicles
13. Tomb Raider: Curse of the Sword
12. Tomb Raider (2000)
11. Tomb Raider III
10. Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris
9. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
8. Tomb Raider: Underworld
7. Tomb Raider
6. Tomb Raider: Anniversary
5. Tomb Raider: Legend
4. Rise of the Tomb Raider
3. Shadow of the Tomb Raider
2. Tomb Raider II
1. Tomb Raider (2013)
A retrospective of Lara Croft's character development and evolution as a woman and as a gaming icon, from 1996 to the newest Tomb Raider series
Lara was quippy and fun, she is currently dry and whiny.Chloe Frazer is actually a better Lara than Lara atm.
I still think it's funny how pointy her tatas used to be
I used to think that was hot when I was 10.
You'll shoot your eye out kid!
Jolie did her justice.
But I was always charmed by Ms. Croft's wit and intelligence.
Wow... Classy topics as always